The Coin Game

1.0 launch is some kind of sick joke. Game runs profoundly worse, has hundreds of more bugs, and the physics update fundamentally breaks most of the physics games. Just how?

Right now, it still needs work getting to back where it was. The publishing deal screwed this game and if the dev can't bring back the game to where is used to be, it might be over.. (The dev mentioned that this publishing deal hurt his game but he wants to fix, so depending on what happens next, only time will tell)

God I love this game so much. Fell in love with the game back when brutalmoose dropped his first video on this game. I've always been an arcade enthusiast and finally seeing the game leave early access soon is getting me very excited! Fun and chill gameplay experience, with more than enough games to keep a person entertained. So excited to see more additions to the game and can't wait to have more mindless fun!

I'll just summarize it as a buggy mess. Jank is fine, game breaking bugs requiring constant game restarts is not.

Since the 1.0 release of The Coin Game, the experience has been extremely frustrating 😐 The game is currently filled with bugs that impact normal gameplay. Vehicles are one of the biggest issues 🚗 • Handling feels almost non existent • Vehicles frequently get stuck on terrain or objects • Driving overall feels unresponsive and inconsistent Movement on foot is also rough. On top of that, the UI is messy. Performance is another problem 📉 The developers mentioned an FPS boost with this update, but in reality, I am still experiencing frequent drops. In some cases, performance feels worse than before the update. One of the most disappointing parts is the lack of communication 📢 The Discord server is locked down, which makes it hard to report bugs or give feedback. There is no clear way for players to engage with the developers right now, and that is not a good sign after a major release. The only strong positive I can point to is the arcade machines 🎮 They are genuinely fun to play, and competing on the leaderboard adds some replay value. This part of the game still feels enjoyable and polished. Overall, this launch feels rushed and unpolished ❌ There are too many core issues affecting gameplay, performance, and communication. If the developer fixes these problems and reopens proper channels for feedback, I would be open to updating this review 👍 But right now, I cannot recommend the game

So this game starts out very underwhelming. You're in a little two-room arcade, one room has a random-interval animatronic band show, the other has a few common "whatever" arcade games you see a lot of in real life. The game is a bit of a Unity flip, you think you wasted your money, and you step outside, supposing you'll check out the island before moving on. Then, you find out this game is massive. There's an entire island you're free to explore. Multiple arcades of varying scales and qualities, go-karts, minigolf, a water park, a carnival, all kinds of fun stuff. So what this game is, in secret, is a survival game with a unique premise, at least if you choose to play on Survival Mode. You can go to the Pawn Shop to sell your prizes for money, and you must use said money to stay alive. You can go to all sorts of places, from a dollar store to a mall, to buy food and equipment, but you're stuck with the restrictions of being a 12 year old let loose: no actual job, no stable income. You can babysit, you can mow lawns, and they're incredibly-boring jobs, so you tend to prefer just getting good at arcade games, winning prizes, and keeping the cashflow coming. Moreover, this isn't JUST an Arcade/Carnival sim. You can do all KINDS of stuff. You can ride the bus and enjoy the island, you can go gambling with scratch off cards, you can even try to save money on food by playing that stupid Taco Bell coin drop game. The coin game really is just a survival game where you need to survive on literal scraps of money using fun, quirky methods. Overall? Fantastic little game. Maybe not for everyone, but the perfect "I don't know what to play today" kind of game.

I bought this game back in 2019 and I loved messing around with it every once in a while. It's a fun arcade/life simulator with a lot of funny details that shows the developer is passionate about the game. The game is pretty janky though. Historically, the developer has taken a "quantity over quality" approach by adding more and more stuff (aka feature creep). With the unity update in this 1.0 version, I was hoping the game would run a lot better but the performance still feels "early access" to me. There are also parts of the game that still say coming soon and these parts have been teased in the game for so long. I cannot recommend this to everyone as a 1.0 release until the game feels more polished/complete overall.

I hate that I have to make this review. How. HOW did this get so much worse on a full release than it was before? 1.0 is barely functional compared to seven years of previous versions that I have been aboard this ride for. Walking doesn't work. Jumping doesn't work. Lighting doesn't work. Physics doesn't work. Inventory doesn't work. Developer spent the final stretch before release adding a nearly non-interactive water park instead of arcade simulator content, or seemingly, any QA at all. Devotid's signature radio silence has always been a non-issue when this was an in-development passion project. With the failure of this launch state, there is an expectation of communication of any kind. There has been none. From what fans can tell, this is it. Maybe forever. To top it all off, game was sold off to a mobile game [i. e. low effort, often-AI, maximum advertising placement] publisher that [i] makes you sign up for data collection to play [/i] now too. Genuinely do not buy if you haven't already. If you have, play a legacy version.

Game is unplayable now. Should not be out of Early Access. The Dev messed up the game big time by changing some code and now the whole game is basically broken. Also, you now have to consent to a third party agreement to play the game, saying they can take the game back at any time, harvest data, etc. That should not be there to begin with but early access supporters like me and thousands of others should be able to opt out at least. But nope. I think the dev is probably a decent guy and loves his game, but he should have been his own publisher too if Kwalee is forcing him to do stuff he does not want to do. Either way, stay away from this game that has doubled in price, very bugy, and makes you consent to stuff you dont want to.